fine arts sale

26th - 28th March 2025

Viewing Sunday 23rd March 11-3, Monday 24th March and Tuesday 25th March 10-5 in the main saleroom.  The sales commences at 10 am each day. You can bid on this sale online, by leaving bids with Mitchells by email only upto 9.30 am on the day of the sale (info@mitchellsantiques.co.uk) or by attending the saleroom and registering to bid.  You can live bid on The Saleroom and Easy Live.  CARD PAYMENT ONLY

Wednesday 26th Lots 1 - 547

Thursday 27th Lots 548 - 1160

Friday 28th Lots 1170-1715

 

Lot 701

John de Lassire, an oil painting on canvas of a punt scene, circa 1927 Buckinghamshire. 31 x 46 cm, framed, signed slightly beneath the mount.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 702

Two prints by John Downman, in gilt oval frames, both topped with bows, frame size excluding bow 31 cm x 28 cm.

Sold for £35

Lot 703

Roy Young Ferguson (Scottish 1907-1981), a watercolour "A Boathouse Morar". 35 x 53 cm, framed and mounted with label to rear Royal Scottish Society of Painters and Watercolours.

Sold for £40

Lot 704

Brian Bradshaw (born 1923-2016), a pastel mountainous landscape. 36 x 50 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 705

Ebenezer John Woods Prior (1914-1988), watercolour depicting steam trains and railway workers, signed EJW Prior. 23 x 34 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £40

Lot 706

A print of The United Constantin der Grobe Mine, marked to the bottom Gewerkschaft Ver Constantin der Grosse. 24 x 40 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Lot 707

Stephen Hill, watercolour dated 1954 street scene from above. 32 x 24 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 708

Hugh William "Grecian" Williams FRSE (Scottish 1773-1829), a watercolour depicting a watermill and lady with water vessel. 23 x 31 cm, framed.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Lot 709

Tom Deakins (born 1957), oil on board suburban lane and house. 11 x 11 cm, framed and mounted, with note to rear Tom Deakins 2009 signed verso.

Sold for £110

Lot 710

Leslie Duxbury ARCA (1921-2001), an artists proof "The Soprano". 15 x 6 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 711

Neil Taylor, an oil on canvas farm and hedge in snow, signed and dated possibly 1992.  38 x 52 cm, framed.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 712

Derek Eland, a watercolour depicting a lakeland ridge, possibly Striding Edge. 35 x 48.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £190

Lot 713

Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), print of Richmond Castle, +/- 21 cm x 16.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 714

Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), signed print Muker in The Yorkshire Dales, +/- 20 cm x 15.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 715

Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), antiquarian map of The County of Cumbria 1980. 69 cm x 49 cm, unframed.

Sold for £32

Lot 716

J Green a watercolour, depicting waterfall and forest, signed and dated 1956. 35 x 55 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 717

Phyllis S Watters, an engraving of a city market place, with label to rear "Modern British Painting Wendy Bray The Old Rectory Rugby Warwicks, Phyllis E Watters ARCA etcher London Exhibited 1923-27", 20 x 25 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £40

Lot 718

An English primitive oil on board, depicting Steyne Brighton, marked to  rear Rutland Gallery London 1768, together with a photograph of a further label with the key to the painting.  30 x 43 cm.

Sold for £450

Lot 719

Jane Lewis (born 1953)., a pastel "Miss Garnet's Angel" with winged figure and Dalmation. 72 x 54 cm, signed and dated '05, in an oak frame with gilt slip and label to rear Portall Gallery dover Street London (see illustration).

Sold for £700

Lot 720

An oil on canvas, depicting mother and child gathering sticks in woodland.  68 x 57 cm in gilt frame.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Lot 721

An oil on canvas, still life scene with fruit and silverware. 56 x 56 cm in gilt frame.

Sold for £65

Lot 722

James McNaught RSW RGI (Scottish born 1948), an oil on board Loch Carron. 28 x 39 cm, framed.

Sold for £50

Lot 723

Albert Rosser (1899-1994), a watercolour "Grange in Borrowdale", signed to the picture and titled and signed to the mount.  25 x 35 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £180

Lot 724

An abstract watercolour on paper, of a bull, signed Kitchen 7th 64 (1964) No 2. 54 x 75 cm, framed.

Sold for £90

Lot 725

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), a watercolour gouache Vale of Lorton, initialled PK. 21.5 x 59 cm, framed and mounted, with Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth label to rear. ARR (see illustration).

Sold for £3800

Lot 726

Biari, oil painting on canvas, still life flowers in vase by window. 48 x 38 cm, framed.

Sold for £55

Lot 727

Robert Jones, oil on board "Sea and rocks St Ives". 20 x 26 cm, framed, signed and dated 1999 with Newlyn Art Gallery label verso ARR.

Sold for £240

Lot 728

After Robert Home, an antiquarian print "The Death of Colonel Moorhouse at the storming of Bangalore March 1791" to Richard Marquies Wellesley. 48 x 61 cm, framed.

Sold for £320

Lot 729

Thomas William Pattinson (British 1894-1983), an oil on board "Near Coniston", inscribed in ink verso Near Coniston English Lakes by TW Pattinson, mounted in an ornate gilt frame. 58 x 87.5 cm ARR.

Sold for £100

Lot 730

Albert Dunnington (1860-1928), oil on artist board Shepherd droving his sheep before a lake with mountainous background, and another a lady with chickens on a rural track before a terrace of thatched cottages, each signed. 34.5 x 24 cm.

Sold for £300

Lot 731

John Leslie Thomson (1851-1929), oil on canvas horse cart and figures in rural setting. 44 x 90 cm, in ornate giltwood and gesso frame.

Sold for £160

Lot 732

Thomas William Morley (1883-1931), watercolour "Cottage in the Woods". 40 x 29 cm, framed.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Lot 733

Henry Cooper (British 19th century), oil on canvas horse cart and figures in rural landscape. 49 x 75 cm, framed.

Sold for £70

Lot 734

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), a painted letter sent from Pear Tree Cottage and dated Saturday/Sunday 20th November 1983, written to Joan David. 21 x 26 cm, with label to rear Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth, "Near Shrumble Pembrokeshire", framed and mounted. ARR (see illustration).

Sold for £1700

Lot 735

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), a charcoal Moresby Hall and St Bridgets Church with Lowca to the rear, initialled P K and dated 1960. 43 x 75 cm, with Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth label to the rear, framed and mounted. ARR (see illustration).

Estimated: £4000 - £6000

Lot 736

An engraving painted by George Morland "The Country Butcher". 44 x 55 cm, framed.

Sold for £40

Lot 737

Three engravings, the first "A View of Ennerdale Broadwater" painted and engraved by Thomas Smith, published 1767. 36 x 53 cm, framed, "The Palace of Patterdale" landscape by W Byrne and J Landseer, published 1788. 20 x 34 cm, and "General Elliott Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar" from the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 42 x 33 cm, framed.

Sold for £100

Lot 738

Two prints on glass, one a portrait of Thomas Maxwell from the picture by John Closterman. 34 x 26 cm, framed, together with another of Robert Earl of Orford. 35 x 21 cm, framed.

Sold for £40

Lot 739

Kenneth Macleay RSA Scottish (1802-1878), a watercolour depicting a Highland dairy maid with loch castle and mountain to rear, signed with note to rear Kenneth Macleay RSA Highland Dairy Maid, this watercolour was exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy in 1871 exhibit No. 294.  22 x 18 cm, framed and mounted, together with a watercolour of Swanston Pentland Hall dated 1906 and initialled M T to left-hand side with newspaper cutting to rear "Swanston Cottage Memories of R L S (Robert Louis Stevenson).  15 x 24 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Lot 740

Cuthbert Bradley, a watercolour of a foxhound "Atherstone Despot", dated 1900 with note and photograph to rear of the dog and Witherley Kennels Atherstone.  15 x 20 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £130

Lot 741

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), watercolour titled to rear "Near Ravenglass" initialled P K with Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth labels to the rear, framed and mounted, purchased from Mitchells in 2018.  20 x 28 cm, framed and mounted. ARR.

Estimated: £1200 - £1800

Lot 742

Percy Kelly (1918-1993), a watercolour titled to the rear "Village Street West Cumbria" possibly Mawbray or Allonby, with various Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth labels to the rear. 10 x 19 cm, framed and mounted. ARR (see illustration).

Sold for £2200

Lot 743

No lot.

Lot 744

Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBS (1867-1956), a watercolour "Study for a charger Eat Slow and Fear God", 56 x 88 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Lot 745

No lot.

Lot 746

K M Weaver (Kevin) 1963-2024, three reverse paintings on glass, the first "Boats on the Beach Mousehole Cornwall".  29.5 x 40 cm, together with "Hyde Park Morning Reflections London" and Blue Feet St Ives Beach"

Sold for £70

Lot 747

K M Weaver (Kevin) 1963-2024, three reverse paintings on glass "Lighthouse on South Stack Holyhead Anglesey" 25.5 x 50.5 cm, together with "Practise Surfers Cornwall" and "Train Through Garsdale"

Sold for £70

Lot 748

K M Weaver (Kevin) 1963-2024, three reverse paintings on glass "Night Lighthouse South Stack Holyhead Anglesey" 22 x 22 cm, together with "Sandhills Beach Melting Pot Dumfries & Galloway" 20 x 75 cm and "Boats at Low Tide Mousehole Cornwall" 17.5 x 82.5 cm.

Sold for £100

Lot 749

K M Weaver (Kevin) 1963-2024, three reverse paintings on glass "Telegraph Pole Rhinog Fawr Wales" 19.5 x 70 cm, together with "Dyke on The Humber Stony Creek" 26 x 50.5 cm and "St Bees Beach Sunset West Cumbria" 25 x 50.5 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 750

K M Weaver (Kevin) 1963-2024, an oil on board "Refugees III", 51.5 x 60.5 cm, together with an oil on board of children, a print 3/25 depicting piles of dead Rwandan Hutu bodies awaiting burial and a photograph of Hutu bodies awaiting burial.

Sold for £35

Lot 751

K M Weaver (Kevin) 1963-2024, an oil on canvas "High Snab Farm Newlands Valley, 25 x 40 cm, together with a drawing Viaduct with Roe Deer Sheep and Fox.

Sold for £20

Lot 752

Delmar Harmood Banner (British 1869-1983), a watercolour Cumbrian landscape with sheep, initialled D H Banner 1928 February.  16 x 26 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £170

Lot 753

Delmar Harmood Banner (British 1869-1983), watercolour titled to bottom left "Eskdale D H Banner 1935".  37 x 55 cm, framed and mounted (see illustration).

Sold for £400

Lot 754

A Victorian engraving, The Great Fight between Broome and Hannan for One Thousand Pounds, 46 x 66 cm in a birdseye maple frame.

Sold for £85

Lot 755

Elizabeth Senior, a set of four botanical paintings, all signed. 15 x 9 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £38

Lot 756

Albert Rosser 1899-1994, a watercolour Derwentwater from High Brandlehow, signed to the picture and mount . 25 x 35 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £180

Lot 757

Christine Baines (Mrs D Wragg born 1958 member of The Lakes Artist Society), watercolour "On The Banks of The River Rothay Ambleside".  33 x 34.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £130

Lot 758

Joyce M Borland (contemporary Scottish born 1939), acrylic on board "Red Road Cardross.  17.5 x 17.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £110

Lot 759

E M Bottomley (Michael 1927-2015, member of The Lakes Artist Society), watercolour boats in Workington Harbour, signed and dated 1956.  30 x 23 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £190

Lot 760

Elizabeth Walsh, watercolour "Hedge Roses", signed.  38 x 36 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £60

Lot 761

Elizabeth Walsh, watercolour "Along The Kingsway", tree and horses by fence, signed 34 x 28 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 762

Elizabeth Walsh, watercolour Songthrush with Honeysuckle and Clematis, signed.  50 x 33 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £125

Lot 763

C Jagdish (Indian born 1956 ), two paper cut out landscapes, with Castlegate House Gallery Cockermouth labels to the rear.  12 x 17 cm, framed and mounted and 12.5 x 48 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 764

C Jagdish (Indian born 1956), two paper cut out landscapes, one with rainbow.  Both with Castlegate Castle Gallery Cockermouth labels to rear.  37 x 38 cm and 27 x 30 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 765

C Jagdish (Indian born 1956), a paper cut out landscape with rainbow and ploughed field.  29 x 27 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 766

W Ford, a large 19th century watercolour grandfather with children in front of a fire.  100 cm x 66 cm, in gilt frame, signed and dated 1869.

Estimated: £150 - £250

Lot 767

Robert Lyn Nelson, an oil painting on board of Sea Otters "See, Hear, Speak No Evil". 43 cm x 98 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £200

Lot 768

Amanda Roussos, a pastel of a steam locomotive at a station. 28 cm x 41 cm, framed, signed.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 769

A pair of Victorian coloured prints after B A Sutherland, depicting the battles of "Omdurman" and "Tel-el-Kebir". 52 cm x 71 cm, framed.

Sold for £170

Lot 770

Alice E Newling, a Victorian watercolour children in garden by country house. 34 cm x 51 cm, framed, signed and dated 1888.

Estimated: £60 - £80

Lot 771

A 19th century oil on canvas, sheep with dog in rural landscape. 41 cm x 25.5 cm.

Estimated: £25 - £40

Lot 772

After Antoinne Gaymard, a mezzotint "Chess Players". 22.5 cm x 29 cm, framed, signed.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 773

A watercolour of a racehorse. 27 cm x 36.5 cm, framed.

Sold for £30

Lot 774

W.H. a pair of watercolours, cottage scenes. 24.5 cm x 17 cm, both signed with initials and dated 1951.

Estimated: £25 - £40

Lot 775

Len Roope (1917-2005), a watercolour "Derwentwater Evening". 21 x 32 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £80

Lot 776

A watercolour "The Richmond Theatre", initialled to left-hand side. 26 x 37 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £25

Lot 777

A watercolour "Edinburgh Georgian New Town Moray Place", initialled to bottom right-hand side and No. 10, with note to rear Edinburgh Georgian New Town Moray Place, watercolour mixed media price £1150. 40 x 51 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 778

Watercolour "Ludlow Early Autumn Morning", initialled, dated 00. 35 x 40 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 779

Two watercolours, the first "The Al-Azhar Mosque Cairo", initialled and dated 2/2000. 38 x 28 cm, framed and mounted and with the Court Gallery East Moseley label to rear, together with a harbour scene, initialled by the same artist, dated 15/9/98.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 780

Piers Browne (1949-2024), an oil on board, probably Wensleydale farmer in hay meadow. 59 x 79 cm, signed and dated 1982.

Sold for £380

Lot 781

Frederick Donald Blake (1908-1997), a watercolour gouache garden scene with cast iron garden furniture. 44 x 70 cm, framed and mounted with the Fraser Carver Gallery Surrey label to rear.

Sold for £80

Lot 782

Frederick Donald Blake (1908-1997), watercolour goauche cottage with trees. 34 x 47 cm, framed and mounted, with the Fraser Carver Gallery Surrey label to the rear.

Estimated: £120 - £180

Lot 783

Three watercolours, all indistinctly signed, the first depicting Notre Dame. 32 x 25 cm, framed and mounted, together with a similar scene 30 x 23 cm and a street scene, 24 x 35 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 784

Mark Spain, a signed limited edition engraving, "The interior staircase Kew" 98/250. 45 x 32 cm, framed and mounted and with CCA Galleries label to the rear.

Sold for £60

Lot 785

Rowena Beaty contemporary Cumbrian artist and sculptor, a pastel of a nude male, framed and mounted. 48 x 59 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 786

Claude Harrison (1922-2009), a signed limited edition print of Grasmere Church and The Rothay, signed and dated 1977 57/100.  34 x 46 cm, framed.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Lot 787

John Kingerlee (born 1936), abstract "Mother and Child", pencil and watercolour, signed with monogram lower right and dated '82 in pencil. 26 x 17 cm. ARR.

Sold for £50

Lot 788

Jim Ridout (born 1946), nineteen posters, limited edition prints etc, to include "Nutwood Skyline" with flying bear, "Bearstorm" and "Fete Champetre"

Sold for £15

Lot 789

Andrew Allen, oil on board "Warmanbe Annan". 37 x 47 cm.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Lot 790

Albert Johannsen, oil on board Danish rural scene. 39 x 48 cm, signed.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Lot 791

Unknown artist etching and aquatint, French village scene with horse and covered wagon. 25 x 13 cm, framed.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Lot 792

Francis Watt (Scottish 1923-2009), oil on board "The Storr Skye". 50 x 76 cm, framed signed and dated 1977.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Lot 793

Horsman (1911-1998), watercolour mountain landscape. 36 x 55 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 794

Franklin White, oil on canvas garden with white rhododendrons. 50 x 74 cm.

Estimated: £120 - £180

Lot 795

F Footit, pair of still life watercolours. 28.5 x 23 cm, framed.

Sold for £50

Lot 796

Ron Gribbons, a pastel "Miner With Pickaxe".  60 x 60 cm, signed and dated 1958, together with another "Blasting" and another "Minor With Pit Pony".

Sold for £300

Lot 797

R Meadows, coastal scene watercolour. 24.5 x 44.5 cm.

Sold for £15

Lot 798

Ceri Richards (Welsh 1903-1971), an artists proof lithograph "Music room From The Beethoven Suite", signed. 50 x 58 cm.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Lot 799

A set of four engravings after Alken, "Partridge Shooting" plates 1, 2, 3 and 4. 21.5 x 27.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 800

Sir Peter Blake RA (born 1932), signed limited edition print "The First Print Target?" 64/75, signed bottom right, with CCA Galleries London certificate.   Sheet size 111 x 101 cm, image size 86.5 x 80 cm. ARR (see illustration).

Sold for £1200